Minority in family mining company overcomes majority ‘oppression’

A 67-year-old closely held mining business may be broken up and parceled out under a judge’s “drastic” remedy for the company’s oppression of minority shareholders in a family feud that has played out as a courtroom corporate drama.
Fairfax Circuit Judge Jane Marum Roush concluded the Disthene Group Inc. – which owns a profitable kyanite mine ...